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Patented Mar. 27, 1883.

[N V EN TOR W1 TNESSES:

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED W. GORDON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESN E ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF AND JAMES P. WITHEROW, OF SAME PLACE.

ClNDER-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,587, dated March 2'7, 1883.

Application filed January 22, 18 83. (No model.)

To all Il /(0M1 it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED W. GORDON, of Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oinder-Gars,of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to that class of cinder-cars which are intended to receive, transport, and discharge blast-furnace cinder in a liquid form, as distinguished from that class of cars which are intended and adapted to discharge the cinder in solid or nearly solid form.

The invention relates to devices for permitting the ready removal from the car, in addition to the liquid cinder, of such cinder as may have become solidified.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a cinder-car embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 an end elevation, of the same.

A A represent a pair of railway-trucks; B B, journal-boxes supported one by each truck; (3, a circular car-body; DD, trunnions attached to car-body and journaled in boxes B;

E, a worm-gear on one of the trunnions; F, a

worm engaging the worm-wheel; G, a crank to revolve the worm; H H, discharge-outlets on opposite sides of the car-body, near the bottom, and provided with tight doors; I, a strengthening and retaiuin g rim of angled iron around top of car-body J, the plate-iron shell of car-body; K, the plate-iron bottom of carbody; L, the fire-brick lining of car-body. The trucks may have any suitable draft attachments, and, if nature of track-curves requires it, may he articulated to the oar-body by vertical pivots connecting boxes B with the trucks,

the air and rain or snow, and consequently more or less solid cinder forms at the top. 0 More or less cinder also forms solid against the fire-brick lining in the way of a scum or skin. These solid matters must to a great extent be removed by shoveling. In this improved car the liquid cinder is discharged as usual in such 5 5 cars, and then the car-body is tilted 'on its trunnions and the solid portions readily shoveled out. The worm and worm-gear contrivance shown adds to the convenience in tilting the ear-body; but other contrivance may be used for the purpose. The circular form of the car-body permits the trucks to be brought up very closely, so as to shorten the wheelbase without interfering with the tilting operation. The dotted outline in Fig. 3 indicates 6 the position of the car-body when very much tilted, the object of the tilting being not to enable the car-body to automatically pour liquid matter over its brim, but to enable the ready removal of solid matter, as above mentioned.'

I claim as my inventionl. In a cinder-car, a wheeled vehicle and a refractory-lined car-body provided with liquidoutlets near the bottom, supported by said 7 5 vehicle and adapted to be tilted with reference thereto, combined substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

2. The combination, in a cinder-car, of a wheeled vehicle, a refractory-lined car-body provided with liquid-outlets near the bottom, and trunnions uniting said car-body to said wheeled vehicle, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, in a cinder-car, of apair of trucks, a pair of journal-boxes supported thereon, a refractory-lined circular carbody having liquid-outlets near its bottom, and a pair of trunnions uniting said car-body and trucks, substantially as and for the puro pose set forth.

4.-The combination, in a cinder-car, of a pair of trucks provided with journal-boxes for supporting a tilting car-body, a worm supported by one of said trucks, atrei'ractory- 9 5 lined car-body having trunnions and liquidoutlets, and a worm-gear fixed 'to one of said liquid-outlets; and a Worm-gem: fixed-i0 one of trunnions, substantially as and for the purpose said trunnions, substantially as and for the specifiecL- I purpose specified.

5. The combination, in a cinder-car, of a "FRED W. GORDON. 5 pair of trucks supporting journal-boxes, a Witnesses:

worm supported by said trucks, a refractory- NELSON VVILLIAMS,

lined circular car-body having trunnions and J. W. SEE. 

